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    Anyone worked with HugeTLB in Linux before?

    Not a solution to your valgrind problem, but have you seen libhugetlbfs? Lots of handy features like HUGETLB_MORECORE and hugeadm. Worth a look if you use huge pages on linux.
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    Anyone worked with HugeTLB in Linux before?

    When I use huge pages, I would never want any of them to swap out. My guess is that your use case is not well represented. Many people using huge pages can afford to dedicate tons of memory to the target application.
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    Anyone worked with HugeTLB in Linux before?

    I've only ever seen 2MB large pages on Xeon/Opteron (from Fedora, CentOS, SLES). If I had to bet, you're not asking for a page-aligned length: